The CityFood Market Handbook for Healthy and Resilient Cities
- 31/03/2025
As cities around the world grapple with rising food insecurity, climate pressures, and deepening inequalities, food markets play a critical role in building healthier, more equitable, and climate-resilient urban food systems.
Outcome Assessment for Future Food Safety and Basic Nutrition Training of Food Vendors.
The Private Service Provider (PSP) knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAPs) assessment was done to see how well PSPs who were trained by the CASCADE project and worked with the National Home-Grown School Feeding Program (NHGSFP) remembered and used what they learnt about basic nutrition, food safety, hygiene, and handling raw materials. The NHGSFP aims to provide daily nutritious meals to public primary school pupils using locally grown farm produce, thereby enhancing children's health, increasing school attendance, and supporting local farmers while contributing to the overall economic and social development of Nigeria. The program was suspended in January 2024 for nine weeks; however, since the suspension by the president, the program has yet to kick off, even with budgetary allocations in the 2024 and 2025 budgets. This suspension has hindered the effective application of the knowledge and skills gained during the training.
GAIN@COP30
- Belém, Global
The Conference of the Parties (COP) is the largest global event for discussions and negotiations on climate change. In 2025, Brazil will have the honour of hosting the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30), which will take place in Belém, Pará.
UN Food Systems Summit Stocktake (UNFSS+4)
- Addis Ababa, Global
This event will build on the momentum of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit and the first Stocktake in 2023 (UNFSS+2), focusing on accelerating sustainable, inclusive, and resilient food systems transformation.
World Food Day 2025
, Global
2025 Theme : FAO’s 80th Anniversary World Food Day is an international day celebrated every year worldwide on October 16 to commemorate the date of the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 1945. Stay tuned for GAIN’s contributions to World Food Day 2025.
GAIN Green Week 2025: Celebrating Earth Day & Sustainability
- Virtual, Global
At GAIN, sustainability is at the heart of everything we do. This year, we're marking Earth Day (April 22) as part of Green Week 2025, a dedicated time for reflection, action, and engagement on environmental sustainability across our global offices.
World Health Day
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Healthy beginnings, Hopeful futures World Health Day, celebrated on 7 April 2025, will kick off a year-long campaign on maternal and newborn health. The campaign, titled Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures, will urge governments and the health community to ramp up efforts to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths, and to prioritize women’s longer-term health and well-being. WHO and partners will also share useful information to support healthy pregnancies and births, and better postnatal health. Stay tuned for GAIN’s contributions to World Health Day 2025.
United Nations embraces a healthy diet indicator towards zero hunger and malnutrition
In a significant step towards addressing malnutrition, the United Nations adopted Minimum Dietary Diversity as a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator. Globally, almost 3 billion people are unable to access and afford a healthy diet. Micronutrient deficiencies, caused in large part by inadequate diets is one of the leading factors in malnutrition globally. Poor diets also account for a global rise in non-communicable diseases and contribute significantly to premature mortality, worldwide. Despite the central importance of healthy diets, until recently, global efforts towards addressing malnutrition lacked standardised metrics to effectively track diet quality. The adoption of Minimum Dietary Diversity in the SDG framework will now give governments, policy makers and international organisations a key tool to formulate evidence-based strategies that can improve diets and help reduce malnutrition.
GAIN Working Paper n°48-Improving Affordability of Nutritious Foods Through Packaging Innovations
- 10/03/2025
Packaging can keep foods safe; help make them appealing, convenient, and long-lasting; and convey key information about them to consumers. At the same time, packaging is an important contributor to food system waste and a major driver of certain foods’ prices in LMICs. As such, it is a sector ripe for creative disruption as part of food system transformation – to ensure safe, nutritious foods can reach the consumers who need them, in affordable forms and with limited negative environmental impact. This paper has considered in detail three packaging innovations that could be used to make nutritious foods more accessible to lower-income consumers: single-serve packaging, reusable packaging, and selling products in bulk without individual packaging.